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Christopher St. John is best known for his role as a radical in the original "Shaft," but "Top of the Heap" showed his fearless filmmaking . Why you should know his work.

Eighty million Americans visit the cinema every week, and in the course of the next year or so, perhaps ninety million will see the film Gone With the Wind. Millions will get from this film their most powerful impression of the greatest civil war in history and one of the decisive turning points in modern history.

The filmmaker as historian: Sam Pollard and MLK/FBI Sam Pollard, a film editor, in New York, Jan. 15, 2021. Whether working on his own projects or others like “Eyes on the Prize II” and “4 Little Girls,” the multihyphenate artist has built a monumental career examining America. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times. by Nicolas Rapold (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Midway through the new documentary “MLK/FBI,” we get glimpses of a Martin Luther King Jr. not often seen in the usual montages of the civil...

The Filmmaker as Historian: Sam Pollard and ‘MLK/FBI’ Whether working on his own projects or others like “Eyes on the Prize II” and “4 Little Girls,” the multihyphenate artist has built a monumental career examining America. Sam Pollard in New York. He “is a master filmmaker,” Spike Lee said. “If you say he’s just an editor or just a director, that’s not the whole story.”Credit...Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times By Nicolas Rapold Jan. 15, 2021 Midw...